Sentences with phrase «canvases of abstract artist»

Blinn Jacobs is represented by Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, Ct The shaped canvases of abstract artist Blinn Jacobs push the boundaries between form and surface in painting.

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The wonderful Autumn Grass Canvas Wall Art by artist, Avery Tillmon, adds a touch of abstract nature to your home.

Opening: Sadie Laska at CANADA Following her group show at Gavin Brown's Enterprise earlier this year, Sadie Laska (who performs in the sound band I.U.D. along with artist Lizzie Bougatsos) will display more of her explosive abstract canvases in her third solo show to date.

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

Lebanese - born artist, academic and poet Etel Adnan produces with her palette knife luminous abstracted landscapes — blocks of bright colour on canvas — that, late in life (Adnan is now nearly 90 years old), have brought her a new generation of devotees.

Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn..

In this presentation of abstract works, you'll see how artists, including Robert Motherwell, Betty Parsons, and Joan Mitchell used loose brushwork and emphasized surface rather than depth on the canvas.

Integrated a multitude of styles and movements into a single canvas, the artist makes compositions that are both figurative and abstract, and a bit erotic and violent, from a perspective that is decidedly feminine and contemporary.

One of the first American artists to investigate the aesthetic potential of the irregularly shaped canvas, Neil Williams initially depicted hard - edged geometric forms, but eventually turned to a painterly abstract style.

The twelve vibrantly colored abstract canvases take their title from a 1981 score for cello and piano by composer Morton Feldman and continue the artist's lifelong investigation of the intersection between representation and abstraction.

In her canvases of the late 1950s onwards, American artist Helen Frankenthaler translated landscape into abstract compositions characterised by flooding colour and increasingly large scale.

Artist Helen Frankenthaler's pictures reacted to the ropey, anxious canvases of abstract expressionism.

Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.

Peggy Bates October 20 — November 26, 2011 Presenting new acrylic paintings on canvas by abstract artist Peggy Bates in an exhibition entitled Channels inspired by the artist's recent observations of light and color in California's Channel Islands.

The way the paint was applied to the canvas, or dripped on it, gave his abstract expressionism a level of distinctiveness in the similar way his personal life was different from other artists.

Luiz Zerbini is one of Brazil's most established contemporary artists, known for his vivid works on canvas which draw on a range of themes from the abstract to landscapes, cityscapes, and domestic scenes using a range of techniques and styles.

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.

GUTS (yellow / gold)(all works 2007), for example, her contribution to «Late Liberties» at John Connelly Presents, is a vivid and uncompromising canvas that confronted viewers with a seemingly metaphorical treatment of the titular word, ensuring that they would be hard - pressed to disagree with curator Augusto Arbizo's claim that «for a young artist to be making work at this moment in what could be called an abstract or nonrepre - sentational manner... is... a highly personal and political act.»

Yet Kandinsky's curious gift of colour - hearing, which he successfully translated onto canvas as «visual music», to use the term coined by the art critic Roger Fry in 1912, gave the world another way of appreciating art that would be inherited by many more poets, abstract artists and psychedelic rockers throughout the rest of the disharmonic 20th century.

More recently, the British artist Ian Davenport has poured stripes of paint down canvases using syringes, letting the colors mix and pool together towards the bottom of his abstract paintings.

South Korean artist Seungjo Jeong creates pared - back canvases that explore the relationship between viewer and artist through the almost abstract evocation of objects.

The gallery I thought contained countless canvas of abstract expressionism from artists like Jackson Pullock to Ad Reinhardt.

Matisse stands as the artist who most directly got under the skin of his work, and indeed there have been few artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to create a distinctly American panorama, both in his figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.

An exhibition of new and recent abstract paintings on canvas and wood panel by visual artist Jimmie James.

Bearden's abstract canvases are of their time, yet set apart in ways that prove crucial to understanding their significance as a stage in the artist's development.

Presenting new acrylic paintings on canvas by abstract artist Peggy Bates in an exhibition entitled Channels inspired by the artist's recent observations of light and color in California's Channel Islands.

An original member of Park Place, the historic New York artist collective, Novros is well known for his large, abstract paintings on irregularly shaped, multipaneled canvases.

The signature of the artist, traditionally the valued hallmark of authority and provenance, recurs throughout «Who What When Where How and Why», emerging from the canvases of Turk's Pollock paintings; the abstract expressionist artist's paint splatters exchanged for innumerable «Gavin Turk» signatures.

Chris Moon is an outsider artist making serious waves as a painter with abstract work that recalls the intensity of Francis Bacon in its stretching of anonymous human forms into the endless void of the canvas

Built from bony slats of bolted - together plywood, this modular bench provided a direct (if less than comfortable) vantage onto the seven large abstract geometric canvases that comprise the artist's «Execution Changes» series, 2010 — .

Bradford (b. 1961)-- a Los Angeles — based artist and MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient — works in a variety of media but is best known for his often enormously scaled collages on canvas, which are akin to abstract paintings.

Gary Petersen, Smashed, 2008 Oil on canvas, 56 x 40 inches January 8 — February 7, 2009 This exhibition examines many of the ways in which artists use line as the dominant element in creating abstract imagery.

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size of the paintings.

In this video interview with Stuart Krimko, Director of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, we learn about Gilliam's unique brush-less technique, his innovations in treating the canvas as the principal material and his influence on a young generation of artists (abstract and not).

They drew on the work of many contemporary artists to create large and small scale portraits, abstract canvases and collaborative sculptures.

The artist's barbershop paintings from 2007 - 2009 are shot with color, and range from figurative to completely abstracted, color - blocked canvases referencing the architectural perspective of the space.

Oil on Canvas Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well - documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated to t...

Bailey Cove (2007), for example, is the name of a campground on Lake Shasta near the artist's hometown of Redding, California; in Wilson's abstract rendition of the area, he stacks overlapped squares of olive green, musty yellow, and slate gray near the bottom of the canvas, evoking a moment at dusk or dawn.

Zak Prekop, Untitled, 2008 Pen and paper on canvas 25 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches September 9 — October 18, 2009 Lisa Cooley Gallery presents a two - person exhibition of abstract paintings by two artists, Jon Pestoni, from Los Angeles, and Zak Prekop, from Chicago.

Ten circular canvases graced Elizabeth Dee's upstairs annex in a jewel - box exhibition dedicated to Betty Blayton, the late abstract painter whose artistic achievements have been partially eclipsed by her roles as cofounder of New York's Studio Museum in Harlem and as an advocate for African American artists.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

As a postmodern artist, whose paintings revitalized a languishing genre in the era of image saturation, Wool creates provocative canvases whose abstract, self - referential imagery refers back to previous paintings to quote and re-quote past work.

The larger space has enabled Bartlett to take on a bigger roster of artists, including the abstract canvases of L.A. painter Alex Olson and the exploratory films of the British artist Beatrice Gibson.

With the artist's subtle use of different shades of paint, as well as his careful attention to the variegated surface of the canvas, the painting stands as a successful intervention into the terrain of abstract expressionist painting.

Each of the vibrantly colored abstract paintings in the exhibition measures 16 x 20 inches — a common canvas size that the artist has used extensively throughout his career.

It seems almost unimaginable that the sparse, abstract works on show here were made by an artist known for canvases heaving under dense layers of paint.

Talk: «Al Held Panel Discussion» at Cheim & Read Following last week's opening of the highly praised exhibition «Al Held: Black and White Paintings,» which showcases eight of the abstract painter's monumental canvases of interlocking forms from 1967 to 1969, the gallery is presenting an in - depth discussion of the artist and his work.

The artist breaks away such divisions and focuses on the creation of the minimal abstract objects — wall - mounted reliefs from foam shapes, which Adian beforehand covers with oil enamel or spray painted canvas.

At the same time, knowing that African American artists had for years been largely expected to make works of social realism, and the ambition to make abstract works every bit as important as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris marked a equally revolutionary statement of artistic freedom, the abstractions of Bowling, Gilliam, Thomas and Ed Clark — who created shaped canvases, sweeping paint across them with push - brooms — are no less arresting.

Referencing art history, mythology, and the work of such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Franz Kline, and Pablo Picasso, Maureen Chatfield paints expressive, landscape - inspired abstract canvases.